full-disclosure - Re: WordPress User Account Information Leak / Secunia Advisory SA23621

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Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 11:16:20 +0200
From: Maksymilian <max@...t.cx>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: WordPress User Account Information Leak /
 Secunia Advisory SA23621

>
>
> The corresponding trac entry for wordpress is closed as
> "wontfix":
> https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1129
>
> Why?
>
>
some people consider this as a security vulnerability but not everybody. eg
drupal

https://drupal.org/node/1004778

In Drupal, is the same problem. Using ctools, you can get username finding

(by [Username])

https://drupal.org/?q=ctools/autocomplete/node/1

(by Amazon)

PoC:
?q=ctools/autocomplete/node/[ID]

In my opinion, this should be fixed. This idea, may be very helpful to
create botnet based on brutal force CMS.

Maksymilian Arciemowicz
http://cxsecurity.com/

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